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Dad rounds up naughty adult son caught vandalising Christmas lights

When video of a group of young people vandalising a family’s Christmas lights display made headlines in Colorado, US, one man was particularly angry.

That’s because the man just happened to be the dad of one of the people in the video.

The father, who was out-of-state at the time, was shown the video by one of his other sons and immediately hopped on a plane, KGW.com reports.

Four hours later eight people from two different families had turned up on the doorstep of the owner of the home they had vandalised – Joe Stricker – and apologised, alongside their “equally embarrassed parents”.

Three people have since been charged by the local sheriff’s office over the incident: a 27-year-old, a 22-year-old, and a 21-year-old.

While impressed by the humbleness of their apology, Mr Stricker said he had made the difficult decision to ask police to go ahead with laying the charges against them.

"We thought about all the different options and we have two children of our own. It was hard, but these individuals were in their 20’s,” he wrote on Facebook.

“If it wasn’t for social media and 9NEWS pushing them forward to confess, and they did it on their own, we would have just let it go. They had two days to come forward and they didn’t. It was absolutely tough for us to make that call. But, what example are we setting for our children?"

"The individuals were cited, not arrested, by our request, and they will have to go to court and pay fines. A very understandable and fair punishment agreed upon by both parties. We ended on great terms and we forgave them for their actions. It was very honorable for them to take full responsibility for their actions."